Was Nintendo right to opt out of the graphics arms race?

[BraLoD]

@Soundwave

Won't quote any of the posts because they are too big, but I'll point out a big outlier you are trying to push here: Switch 2 can run X PS5 game with ease.

Just stop.

Switch 2 is not running the PS5 game, much less with ease, it's running its own version, it's holding back in many places, which doesn't mean the game looks or runs bad, but it's certainly not "running PS5 games with ease", the PS5 itself isn't running them with ease, it's running as best as it can unless the devs are lazy, which is not that easy to happen as many games are built with the PS5 in mind at its base.

The way you word your posts even sound like you are saying the Switch 2 is stronger than the PS5...

As I said to someone else in another thread, it's a pretty decent hardware considering it's a portable system, even if the specs may not match some portable PCs, it's not what it is supposed to do, that doesn't matter.

Personally I do think the Switch 2 should be $400 instead of $450, it does have many flaws like the screen, battery life and storage capacity, storage capacity alone is something costly nowdays and just 256gb is sad, specially with the game key card massive push. Double the memory alone would make $450 way better.

It is in a way better position than the Switch 1 was tho, it was insane that was $300 and never dropped, but I do agree the screen being worse than it was before makes no sense at all.

Anyway, I don't think anyone should be sad with the Switch 2 right now, it'll obviously fall behind more and more as times goes on and and eventually we have the likes of the PS6, but even so, that's definitely not what you should be expecting from the device, if you are, you should already be investing in a much more expensive portable PC.

Last edited by BraLoD - on 11 January 2026